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Bond Illustrations

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:02:57 +0000

Michael Gillette did these killer illustrations for a new series of James Bond books for Penguin, and has just started selling limited-edition prints of them.

New Total Design book by Unit Editions

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:08:20 +0000

TD 63-73: Total Design and its pioneering role in graphic design looks like it’ll be another great one from Unit Editions, who can do no wrong. And this is the sweet spot in a sweet history.

Old & New Book Cover

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:35:35 +0000

By Onlab. The whole book looks cool, but I love the 3D type on the cover.

And love that they put a little “making of” gallery on their site.

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Graphic Design for Fashion

admin — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:03:49 +0000

This looks like a pretty interesting book. I’ve always thought that design for fashion can be some of the most interesting/edgy/elegant work. By Jay Hess and Simone Pasztorek. (Via September Industry.)

Give the gift of books

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:17:19 +0000

Was hoping to do a more comprehensive list, but not a lotta new design books came out this year. Nonetheless, here’s a couple for the designer on your list:

A couple from Unit Editions:

Supergraphics:

Space and structure (U:D/R02). Looking at Form, a quarterly magazine of the arts (1966-1969)

Some new ones from Chronicle:

Alvin Lustig:

Designers’ Identities:

Fanzines:

And from the Impossible Project:

The Branding of Polaroid:

Barry McGee @ Issuu

admin — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:54:03 +0000

I just discovered Issuu. And what’s the first thing I happen to click on? This great, purely visual zine from Barry McGee:

Open publication

Wim Crouwel

Shawn Hazen — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:42:02 +0000

So, so cool. Via Flyer Goodness.

Colors in Cultures

Shawn Hazen — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:43:43 +0000

Handy and pretty. There’s a Web version, too.

By Always with Honor for information is Beatiful..

Unit Editions

Shawn Hazen — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:32:28 +0000

A new design publisher just launched. Judging from the look of this first title, their stuff is gonna be great.

Workers Quarterly – Design for Then

Shawn Hazen — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:05:54 +0000

It sounds like a Commie rag, and maybe the regular Quarterly was. But this is a “hymnal” with what amount to church songs for hippies.

I found this amidst my dad’s boxed-garage-crap years ago. He was neither a Commie nor a hippie, but he played the guitar and was raised catholic.

Ironically, it was printed in Chicago. Perhaps it actually belongs on Chicago Type, another of my sites. It’s damn near a 1967 type specimen book. The layouts are energetic and inspired—bringing an intesity to the social message often out of sync with the peacenik Kumbaya nature of the songs.

The type styles vary wildly from page to page, and often within each spread. This must have been pretty hard to do in 1967. Presumably it was all phototype, all spec’ed separately and maybe assembled by hand. No small feat considering how stoned they likely were judging from the Beat-like stream of consciousness of the headlines. Regardless, someone put a lotta work into this little one-color, saddle-stitched pamphlet.